ANN ARBOR, MI â On Wednesday, October 19, 2005, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California, will hear oral arguments in Eklund v. Byron Union School District. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, represents several parents and children who challenged the Byron Union School Districtâs practice of teaching twelve-year-old students "to become Muslims."
For three weeks, impressionable twelve-year-old students were, among other things, placed into Islamic city groups, took Islamic names, wore identification tags that displayed their new Islamic name and the Star and Crescent Moon, which is the symbol of Muslims, were handed materials that instructed them to âRemember Allah always so that you may prosper," completed the Islamic Five Pillars of Faith, including fasting, and memorized and recited the "Bismillah" or "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate," which students also wrote on banners that were hung on the classroom walls.
A federal district court judge in San Francisco had previously determined that the school district had not violated the constitution.
According to Richard Thompson, Chief Counsel of the Law Center, "There is a double-standard at play in this case. If the students had done similar activities in a class on Christianity, a constitutional violation would surely have been found. If the public school's practice is upheld on appeal, all public schools should begin teaching classes on Christianity in the same manner as the Islam class was taught in this case."
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"If the public school's practice is upheld on appeal, all public schools should begin teaching classes on Christianity in the same manner as the Islam class was taught in this case."
Nah. I think that we all know that this ain't gonna happen.
I'd be more interested to know who thought this was a good idea in the first place. In a real world with real investigative journalists, there'd be a Pulitzer Prize in uncovering this infamy. But...we live in a world where the only way to a PP is to vilify anyone who's not solidly liberal.
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Things like this are why it is important to pass Propositions 74 and 75. It is also inidicative of why the teachers unions are so hysterical in their opposition to them.
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Given the proximity to the Bay area, the only reason that they are teaching the kids to Muslim is because the teachers there perceive muslims to be the enemy of the United States and the enemy of their enemy is their friend.
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Given the proximity to the Bay area, the only reason that they are teaching the kids to Muslim is because the teachers there perceive muslims to be the enemy of the United States and the enemy of their enemy is their friend.
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Man....I was a smart-ass in grade school. I prolly would have showed up wearing a suicide belt and been expelled or something.....
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Am I missing something.
What the school is doing is forcing the children go BECOME MUSLIM IN FACT. Since all one has to do to become muslim is to recide 'There is no god but allan...' right?
This also means that these children are also locked into Islam -- since leaving Islam is justification for murder in most Islamic states.
As far as the ACLU is concerned - the ACLU is not against religion - just christianity and Judism.
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Wilma weakened slightly Thursday as it roared toward Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and southern Florida, an "extremely dangerous" storm that already has killed 13 people and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands from Honduras to the Florida Keys. Wilma briefly grew into a Category 5 storm before weakening to a Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it was expected to hit the resort of Cancun early Friday. It would be the second hurricane to hit Cancun and its neighboring resorts this year, following Hurricane Emily in July.
Tourists were ordered out of the Florida Keys and the island of Isla Mujeres near Cancun on Wednesday, and authorities were poised to move out thousands of others Thursday from low-lying areas in a 600-mile swath covering Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Cayman Islands. Some of the estimated 70,000 tourists still in Cancun and surrounding areas were taking the warnings more seriously than others, as heavy rain began lashing the city. The Senor Frog's restaurant in Cancun sponsored a "Hurricane Wilma" party, but it was far from full.
Standing knee-deep in the ocean and drinking beer in Playa de Carmen, south of Cancun, Mike Goepfrich of Minneapolis said: "As long as they give me beer in the shelter, and my kids are safe, we'll be fine. We're going to ride it out here." Some people never learn
Nearby, fisherman Rolando Ramirez, 51, was helping others pull their fishing boats from the water in preparation for Wilma's passage. "People here aren't concerned about anything," Ramirez said. "They don't know that when the hurricane comes, this will all be under water."
At 8 a.m. EDT, Wilma was centered 175 miles southeast of Mexico's Cozumel Island, and was moving northwest at near 7 mph. The storm was expected to hit the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, near Cancun, early Friday before turning northeast toward southern Florida. Forecasters said it could strengthen before hitting land and called Wilma an "extremely dangerous hurricane." The storm should eventually make the sharp right turn toward Florida because it will get caught in the westerlies, the strong wind current that generally blows toward the east, they said.
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UPDATE: At 10 am CDT...1500z...the center of Hurricane Wilma was located near latitude 18.4 north... longitude 85.5 west or about 170
miles... 275 km... south-southeast of Cozumel Mexico. Wilma is moving toward the west-northwest near 7 mph ...11 km/hr. A turn toward the northwest is expected later today.
Maximum sustained winds are near 145 mph...230 km/hr...with higher gusts. Wilma is a category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Some re-strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 90 miles...150 km...from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 260 miles...415 km.
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And appear to have infected the entire political elite of France, Belgium, Germany and Spain...
A new species of marine worm that lives off whale bones on the sea floor has been described by scientists.
The creature was found on a minke carcass in relatively shallow water close to Tjarno Marine Laboratory on the Swedish coast.
Such "zombie worms", as they are often called, are known from the deep waters of the Pacific but their presence in the North Sea is a major surprise.
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I blame Global Warming™!
Err, I mean Bush!
Umm, I mean the Joooooos!
*head explodes*
/moonbat
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) Education Minister Sheikh Mubarak Nahian Al Nahian announced that 500 orphans from Azad Jammu and Kashmir will be enrolled in educational institutions in his country, reported ARY news channel on Wednesday. Al Nahian said the children would be educated in the UAE and the government would take care of their boarding, the channel quoted him as saying.
Good idea. Keep the kids out of the madrassahs.
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I'm pretty sure this is a new claim, though he's said it so often I can't be sure.
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, says he is in possession of intelligence showing that the United States plans to invade his country. In a BBC interview, Mr Chavez said the US was after his nation's oil, much as it had been after Iraq's. But he stressed that any invasion would never be allowed to happen.
Mr Chavez has long accused Washington of being behind what he describes as a coup - claims the United States denies. An attempt to unseat him three years ago was aborted. The Venezuelan president was interviewed by the BBC's Robin Lustig in Paris, while on an official visit to France.
Asked why he thought the US was trying to invade Venezuela, Mr Chavez said: "We have denounced intentions.
"A coup happened in Venezuela that was prepared by the US. What do they want? Our oil, as they did in Iraq.
"We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it," Mr Chavez said.
Recently a US TV evangelist, Pat Robertson, called for his assassination. Mr Chavez said this would be "cheaper than invading Venezuela". Mr Robertson's remarks were described by the US State Department as "inappropriate", and Mr Robertson later apologised for them.
Mr Chavez went on to describe the US as a terrorist government. "It is an imperialist government, one that says it fights against terrorism but protects it. The US throws stones to Latin America." He also denied claims that Venezuela was a threat to the international community, saying that his country wanted open relations with the whole world - a multi-polar world - but "with respect".
Correspondents says the Venezuelan president has cultivated ties with other countries that have strained relations with the US - chiefly Cuba and Iran. Washington officially sees him as an unfriendly head of state in South America.
Mr Chavez, like Adolph Hitler, 55, first came to prominence as a leader of a failed coup in 1992.
After being released from prison, like Adolph Hitler, he embarked on a political career that swept him to power in 1998, with a promise to transform Venezuela.
Relations with Washington reached a low when he accused it of "fighting terror with terror" during the war in Afghanistan after 11 September. The situation hardly improved when Mr Chavez accused the US of being behind the failed coup to oust him in 2002, and of funding opposition groups. The country's vast oil reserves - the largest in the Americas - have given it a strategic importance, but the US state department denies trying to overthrow the president.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Chinese military officials today that China's expansion of its strategic missile forces and a lack of information about the buildup is a concern to the United States and other nations.
During remarks to members of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, a top military school, Mr. Rumsfeld said the missile force expansion allows strategic weapons "to reach many areas of the world beyond the Pacific region."
"Those advances in China's strategic-strike capability give us questions, particularly when we have an incomplete understanding of such developments," he said during the last day of a two-day visit here.
Mr. Rumsfeld said China can decide how much it wants to say about its nuclear intentions but that providing "clarity" on the issue would promote "greater certainty" among nations in the region.
"A number of countries with interests in the region are asking questions about China's intentions," he said.
The defense secretary said the United States wants China to emerge as a peaceful partner in the international system but noted that success in closer ties will require "both cooperation and candor."
Yesterday, China's strategic missile forces commander told Mr. Rumsfeld that his country is not targeting U.S. cities with missiles and would not be the first to use nuclear arms in a conflict.
The commander, Gen. Jing Zhiyuan, made the comments in an effort to clarify recent statements by a Chinese general who said Beijing is prepared to strike hundreds of U.S. cities with nuclear weapons if the United States defends Taiwan from an attack by the mainland.
"There have been suggestions of late that China is targeting other countries. This is completely groundless," Gen. Jing said, according to U.S. defense officials at an unprecedented briefing on Chinese strategic forces.
The comments by Gen. Jing, along with a Power Point slide presentation by another officer, marked the first time that senior U.S. defense officials were briefed inside the Chinese military's Second Artillery Corps headquarters at Qinghe, north of Beijing.
The briefing for Mr. Rumsfeld mentioned strategic missile training, organization and weapons, including the two versions of the new road-mobile Dong Feng-31 missile -- the longer-range DF-31A and the submarine-launched JL-2.
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TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary 6.5 magnitude struck northeastern Japan late on Wednesday, shaking buildings in the Tokyo region and briefly shutting down train lines, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. There was no danger of a tsunami but two people were reportedly injured.
That's two. Injured, not dead. If Japan was a Muslim country, the bodies would be stacked 40 deep.
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PIGEONS exposed to bird flu have been quarantined in Melbourne in the first local scare since the outbreak hit Asia and Europe.
Three pigeons imported from Canada have tested positive to bird flu antibodies after being brought by plane to Australia.
Another four tested positive to antibodies for Newcastle disease, which has the potential to sweep through the bird population.
In a shock development, it emerged that Canadian quarantine authorities had certified the infected birds as disease-free.
The birds were part of a wider shipment of 102 racing and show pigeons that arrived on September 5 and have since been quarantined at Spotswood.
It was confirmed last night the infection posed no health threat to humans. Further tests are expected to be done on the pigeons.
Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran said he had ordered an immediate inquiry into the breach of Canada's bird flu defences.
The minister will also demand answers from the Canadian ambassador as to why paperwork accompanying the consignment said the birds had the all-clear for all viruses.
"I am deeply concerned at the breach in security by Canadian authorities," Mr McGauran said. "But I am thankful that the Australian system is so rigorous."
Bird flu has killed dozens of people and has the potential to kill millions if it mutates into a form transmissible between humans.
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza, H7, was discovered on a farm in Canada's west in February 2004.
The three pigeons with bird flu antibodies in Melbourne will be put down while the remaining 99 will be either sent back to Canada or killed.
Testing positive to antibodies means the infected pigeons were exposed to a strain of bird flu. Health experts said last night that further detailed tests would be required to determine the threat posed by the discovery.
"It is not possible to tell the strain of influenza," Mr McGauran said.
There was no threat to humans, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service said last night.
Professor Greg Tannock, an RMIT virology expert, told the Herald Sun that birds carrying the antibodies would have been exposed to a strain of bird flu at some point. "It depends on how soon they made the antibodies," he said.
"The worry is that there could be some virus hanging around as well.
"The antibodies don't arrive unless you've had the virus: the question is if they've still got it."
The birds were last night being held in level four security at AQIS's Spotswood headquarters.
This is the highest level of security possible for diseased animals.
They also have been tested for other avian illnesses including Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease that can devastate the poultry and caged birds industries.
Newcastle disease is a viral disease that affects chickens, as well as caged and wild birds.
The exact strain of bird flu detected at Spotswood was unclear last night. The H5N1 bird flu strain has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003.
It has since spread to Europe, including Greece and Turkey.
AQIS spokesman David Finlayson said the birds at Spotswood were no danger to the community because they were already being held in high-security quarantine when they were tested and the antibodies detected.
"There is absolutely no risk at all," he said.
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Another four tested positive to antibodies for Newcastle disease, which has the potential to sweep through the bird population.
Hmmm.. I seem to remember there was a small outbreak of Newcastle Disease in '99 in a couple of parts of NSW...
AUSTRALIAN authorities have seized 31 illegal fishing boats in a two-week operation to protect marine stocks in its northern waters, Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald said today.
Senator Macdonald said the boats, mainly Indonesian, had been towed to the port of Broome as a result of the sweep, codenamed Operation Clearwater II, and 59 crew members had been charged with illegal fishing.
"This operation has not only resulted in 31 boats being seized that will never plunder our waters again, it will also have an impact on those Indonesians who wrongly think heading into Australian waters might be worthwhile," Senator Macdonald said.
He said the Government was allocating an extra 34 customs officers to northern Australia and supplying them with an additional four patrol boats to apprehend illegal fishing vessels.
Australian authorities yesterday detailed how customs officers fought off knives, machetes and flaming missiles as they apprehended an Indonesian fishing boat filled with dried shark fins.
Why did we not just sink it with a bomb? Thats what indo did to chinese vessel in Indo waters just last month.
Senator Macdonald this week called for amendments to the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea so it no longer banned jail terms for illegal fishing.
Why? taxpayers would have to pay for dirty indo's access to 3 square meals, a tv, a koran and a mullah, not to mention access to Australian university education in prison.
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Canada might restrict its crude oil exports to the U.S. in favor of sales to China as retaliation in a longtime trade dispute, Prime Minister Paul Martin hinted in an early October speech in New York.
The dispute has been simmering for years but boiled over in May 2002 when the U.S. imposed 27 percent duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The World Trade Organization recently upheld the American contention that Canadian exports were subsidized and could damage U.S. industry. But WTO ruled that the American anti-dumping fees were not legal. The U.S. has collected some $5 billion and distributed it to American producers. So if the WTO ruled in favor of the US on the Canadian softwood dumping issue, and said that US companies were not allowed compensation, then the only thing that was accomplished is that the WTO said that Canada was wrong, nothing else, no consequences.
Martin and other Canadian government leaders have been careful not to directly link the softwood conflict to any oil punishment. But when Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Ottawa for a four-day visit in September, it came on the heels of U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's survey of Alberta's oil production. Link but no link, heh heh.
Beijing has been working to transfer control of Husky Oil from its favorite Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka Shing, to one of its government oil companies. And last year China announced it was willing to invest heavily in oil sands reserves, which make Canada, now the worldâs No. 7 producer, potentially one of the worldâs largest and most stable energy sources. Li Ka Shing's company, Hutchison Wampoa fronted for the Chicoms. They also have the port contracts at both ends of the Panama Canal, among other things. The Chicoms are thinking long term grand strategy.
Just days after Martinâs speech, Canadaâs Acting Natural Resources Minister John McCallum conferred in Beijing with the presidents of two of China's largest state-owned oil companies. McCallum said China could be importing 400,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada within seven years. He called for quick implementation of the almost-unnoticed declaration of a Canada-China "strategic partnership" announced during the Hu visit. If Canada is not careful, the Chicoms will own them, through systematic business acquisitions. This does not bode well for the US.
"This is not a threat, and there is no linkage," McCallum said. "I am saying that Canada is pursuing its national interest to sell our energy resources and our other resources all around the world to get the best price and the most secure markets that we can ... The government is saying that if the U.S. doesn't respect NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] rules on wood, then what does that mean for NAFTA rules in other areas, including energy?" This could cause the US to rethink the routing of the proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline, a HUGE projet. There are two proposed agreements for Canadian transit to the Lower 48 states, and one Alaska route to a LNG terminal in Valdez.
Complex trade relations between the worldâs two largest traders would still present many complications to a closer Canada-China energy relationship. Oil-producing Alberta Premier Ralph Klein reminded Martin publicly that it was not Ottawaâs decision of how and where its energy would go, since control of subsoil resources is a provincial prerogative. And therein lies the rub. But if the Chicoms are the big players in energy holdings in Alberta, it would seem to me that they would call the tune. We better get our energy house in order.
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Um... Oil is a fungible commodity. if Canadian oil goes to China, then the oil that had originally been earmarked for China is available for sale. If they would withhold all oil sales, that would screw up prices, but it would cost them all the revenue during that time.
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What Mark said. Let the Chinee take the downside price risk and let the US enjoy the benefit of chinee capital. Even better the oil is very easy to take defend in case of some emergency.
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Martin and other Canadian government leaders have been careful not to directly link the softwood conflict to any oil punishment
Prudent of them, since a) we're one of their largest trading partners overall and b) such retaliation violates several international agreements unless it's done in a not-entirely-obvious-or-at-least-somewhat-plausibly-deniable way IIRC.
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if Canadian oil goes to China, then the oil that had originally been earmarked for China is available for sale
That works in a market in equilibrium. When demand outpaces supply, it works less well.
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That works in a free market. It appears that Canada (and other countries, like Venezuela) want to set up a situation where oil trade is governed by government-to-government contracts with different prices for different countries.
This is the perfect stimulus to produce what all of these countries have been complaining about to begin with: war for oil.
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Touche! LOL! I gotta mention that to my Liberal friends.
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Where would Qanada be if we closed the border to commercial traffic and brought all of those manufaturing jobs back that support, just one among many, the auto industry? And we stopped buying Qanadian qrap? Gosh, think they'd like that as our tat for their tit? Stupid protectionism cuts both ways - but in this case it would gut Qanada far worse than the US. as other have pointed out.
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lotp: That works in a market in equilibrium. When demand outpaces supply, it works less well.
Demand always matches supply. At some price. If the Canadians want to subsidize Chinese oil consumption by selling below market price just to stick it to Uncle Sam, that's their prerogative. Think of it as an aid program. I just can't see that it will hurt the US more than it will hurt Canada. For Canada to compensate for lower sales of lumber by settling for lower total sales (because of some preferred price at which oil is being sold to the Chinese) of oil is just so idiotic, I can't believe this guy is doing this on economic grounds alone. I understand that Canada's population is 10% Chinese, but the cumulative negative economic impact from such stupid deals will alienate the other 90% of Canada's population that isn't Chinese.
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The Cannucks have got a valid beef on the softwood lumber issue. We went outside of a WTO process we both agreed to adhere to. Pity is we should just be taking the cheaper lumber and putting it into lower home prices (among other things) rather than corporate welfare for Weyerhaeuser.
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US softwood lumber is a campaign contributor. Not a large contributor or even a particarly large industry, but enough to get Congress and the Administration in line to "protect" them at the expense of US consumers and (smaller matter) overall relations w/Canada. The same way our relations with PRC are distorted to protect companies who want access to the Chinese market.
Just sayin' - it would be as bad or worse with the Dems in control - will either party (or a new one) ever be willing to put US national interest first again?
A 16-year-old male suspect was arrested in the slaying of famed criminal defense attorney Daniel Horowitz's wife, and a newspaper reported Thursday that he clubbed her to death with a piece of crown molding. Vitale, 52, was slain over the weekend at the hilltop estate where the couple were building their dream home in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of Lafayette. The teenager lived down the hill on a remote canyon road. He was arrested Wednesday night. Police would not identify the teenager and said they were still working to determine a motive for the beating death Saturday of Pamela Vitale. "Although we have a suspect, the investigation is still going on," said sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee. "Much more work still needs to be done."
Vitale, 52, was slain over the weekend at the hilltop estate where the couple were building their dream home in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of Lafayette. The teenager lived down the hill on a remote canyon road. He was arrested Wednesday night. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that an anonymous law enforcement source said police believe the teenager killed Vitale by striking her with a piece of crown molding 39 times in the head â and then carved some kind of gothic signature into her back. The suspect had scratches on his legs and face consistent with a violent altercation when cops arrested him at a relative's house, the Chronicle reported. First, let me go on record that I think it's a low down dirty shame this poor woman was murdered. But the irony is almost too perfect. Daniel Horowitz is the p.o.s. who defended Scott Peterson (among others). I think HE would be the perfect candidate to represent the young man accused of this murder. [sarcasm on] I'm sure the 16-year-old in question is a very fine boy, a role model, and a scholar, who is not responsible for his actions, clearly it was the influence of satanic music or something else, and this upstanding young man should not be subject to punishment of any kind. [sarcasm off].
Schadenfreude, anyone?
Not for me. This lady was killed with crown molding for some lousy credit card scheme by a 16 year old sh*t. I take no pleasure in this whatsoever.
At least it wasn't Teddy or JFnk...
(CBS4) WASHINGTON: New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg is a bit richer today. He is one of 49 people who won a second place prize in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. Gregg matched 5 of the winning numbers, but missed the Powerball. His ticket is worth $853,492. Senator Gregg bought the ticket in Washington, DC at a gas station with a Dunkin Donuts. There was just one winner of the $340 million Powerball jackpot. That winning ticket was sold in Oregon. Wonder if he'll catch a backlash?
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could be worse - I remember someone making $100,000 off WSJ cattle tips....at least he just got lucky, not gaming the system
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I don't want a math impaired Senator.
Eh. I don't have a problem with anyone who buys a lottery ticket when the pot gets big. Yeah, the odds are you won't get a cent, but if the potential payoff is 300,000,000:1...
It's like assessing risk. People worry about air travel because the potential downside is very high; very few planes crash, but very few people survive plane crashes. On the other hand, more people are in car crashes, but the survival rate is much higher.
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Hey, it's not like he invested in cattle futures...
Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself Thursday in at the Harris County sheriff's bonding office, where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money laundering charges.
"He posted $10,000 bond and they have left the bonding office," Lt. John Martin with the sheriff's department said.
No perp walk in handcufs, the left will be so disapointed
DeLay, accompanied by his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, showed up about 12:15 p.m., appeared before a judge and was gone in less than 30 minutes, Martin said.
"How do you plead?"
"Not guilty"
"Ok"
The appearance came a day after a state court issued an arrest warrant for DeLay and set an initial bail, a routine step before the Texas Republican's first court appearance Friday in Austin. He had been expected to appear for booking in Bend County, but went to Houston instead. Under Texas law he could check in anywhere in the state.
The Smoking Gun has his mug shot. Another disapointment for the Dems, it looks great.
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That IS a great looking 'mugshot'. If newsies were planning to use it going forward... it looks as good or better than a purpose-taken campaign ad shot.
Here's to the end of Ronnie The Fuckwit Earle. May he go down in flames, er, I mean to prison for abuse of office. Man, what a butt-buddy he'd make in Huntsville, lol. Not that he put anyone there, he's a political cretin, but a DA, whew! wotta prize he'd be. Passed around more 'n Betty Phuxalot at the keggers.
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Nice mugshot, and the lapel pin adds a nice touch, too. Let the games begin. I hope that Mr. Earle reaps what he sows. His trolling for friendly or intimidated grand juries is a discrace to American justice.
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In case 'Commander In Chief' just isn't enough...
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's possible race to become the first woman president is still three years off but fans and detractors alike can track her every move online thanks to a new Web site dedicated to all things Hillary.
JustHillary.com, a new fanlike Web site launched as a side project by New York Post political editor Gregg Birnbaum, touts itself as an independent, all-encompassing news portal about Clinton. Its motto: ``It's all about her.'' Understatement of the week.
``I felt that there's just so much interest out there in Mrs. Clinton that it would be helpful to have everything on an updated basis put in one place,'' Birnbaum said. ``Her pace is so quick and she's doing so much.''
In addition to a bio and pictures, the site includes the ``Hillary tracker,'' which gives visitors up-to-the-minute reports, as well as a daily schedule. Last night, she held a fund-raiser for her HillPAC political action committee at the U2 concert in Washington, D.C. On Oct. 28 she'll be in Boston to meet with a women's political group and host a fund-raiser for New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch. Also on her schedule: presenting Oprah Winfrey an Emmy at the Nov. 21 TV awards show.
Hillary watchers can also monitor her votes on key issues, read press releases from her office and see where she stands in the latest polls. ``There's so much international interest in her,'' Birnbaum said. ``There's plenty of news every day to fill the site.'' Just checked out the site; believe it or not, it looks fairly balanced (for now).
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I would like to see every Federal politician have a similar website. One non-partisan site stats on votes, speaches, and fundraising would be helpful at election time.
The St. Louis area has seen 16 Democrat election workers convicted of voter fraud or similar charges this past year. This past week an obstruction of justice and plotting to murder a government voter fraud witness can be added to that list of Democrat convictions.
Although, Kelvin Ellis was convicted of voter fraud, tax evasion, and pled guilty to obstruction of justice and plotting to kill a government witness, his "running a prostitution ring out of City Hall" charge did not make it to court!
Former Democratic Party Leader and Director of Regulatory Affairs, Kelvin Ellis told the judge that he understood the charges against him and pled guilty on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 to obstruction of justice and plotting to kill a government witness. His trial had been set for today, October 17.
Today, Kelvin Ellis, the man held behind bars for plotting to murder the federal witness said there is more indictments to come:
And he said the federal investigation that led to arrests of eight people with links to City Hall is not done yet.
"I'm certain there are other targets," Ellis said with a trademark, gap-toothed grin. He declined to name one, but insisted, "I can't be the be-all, end-all. There has to be something else."
Ellis had been a top aide to Mayor Carl Officer in the 1990s, and previously served 18 months in prison for using his position in city government to get kickbacks. He eventually found his way back to power in City Hall.
When Officer returned to the mayor's office in 2003, their relationship was "strained," Ellis said. Officer has recently supported some Republican candidates. For that, Ellis said, he wants Officer out of power.
A former choirboy, Ellis now has accumulated four felony convictions. He is the son of two East St. Louis teachers and the father of 15 children. He complained of not receiving regular doctor visits for his diabetes during 10 months at the Tri-County Detention Center, deep in Southern Illinois. It often is used as a stop-off for federal inmates facing immigration charges.
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OK, there is absolutely no reason why this story is not picked up by MSM. Oh, they are not Republicans. Sorry.
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Business as usual in the world of democratic politics. If one of them was named DeLay Anderson Cooper would have pitched a tent at the courthouse.
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Yah. No reason to spotlight this. It wouldn't help anything, and might actually hurt Democrats in the next election. Plus, the angle of black people not being able to govern themselves, which has already been done to death in the wake of Katrina. I don't think we need to waste any space covering this. I want 500 words on Karl Rove on my desk tomorrow morning.
--you know that this exact same scenario is playing out at newsdesks across the country
Rumor: Cheney to Resign; Rice as V.P.
After a Washington Post story suggesting that Vice President Dick Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA investigation, rumors are flying around Washington that Cheney might step aside â and be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "If that should happen, there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated â another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP â a White House insider told Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report.
In the book, Morris and co-author Eileen McGann warn that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the U.S. unless she can be stopped. And Condoleezza Rice, they say, is the only Republican who can win the GOP nomination, beat Hillary and hold on to the White House for the GOP. A move now to elevate Condoleezza to the vice president's position would better prime her for a run against Hillary in 2008.
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Yea, but the WaPo failed to point out that an alien being eat my baloney sandwich.
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Brahahahha...
Everything is proceeding according to my plan...
Posted by: Karl Rove Emperor of the Republic ||
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On Fox, Brit Hume reported this story - but the ending was extended... it was that the entire White House was laughing its collective head off over the ninnies that cooked this tripe up and ran with it. In effect, the author, Paul Bedard, is the biggest laughing stock in DC, today. And that's saying something, I guess. So move over Boxer, Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, et al - the MSM twitters hold center stage, again, and Rather has competition for MSM Moron. Rove has to be laughing loudest - they keep making him look like he could teach Machiavelli a thing or three. :-)
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And what, pray tell, is Hillary going to run on outside of MSM/LeftMedia propaganda and PC - Darth Seminous/Stainous, i.e. Great Caesar the Hun, Bill has pretty much destroyed anything and everything major she andor the Dems can claim from the post-Bush 1 1990's, while the credibility of the MSM is well-tottering as we speak. All Dems and LeftLibs, etal. are RINO's and Rightist Conservatives now. Hillary and Madman Dean, aka Mr. Judy Dean, can't expect to still be calling for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, etc, while NOT explaining to Amer voters why its needed and espec how is going to be paid for wid out raising taxes.
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Condi should have gone through the 2004 elections if she wanted the job. Becoming President without going through a single election cycle is pretty rare.
The Plame-CIA case is a non-starter. If she was not a field agent (and she wasn't for five years prior unless she took her kids with her) then no crime was committed. Why would Cheney resign in that case?
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"Becoming President without going through a single election cycle is pretty rare"
Two generals in a hundred and fifty odd years is pretty rare. If Condi was a General perhaps her chances would increase. I have no problem with her, but she should have been VP in 2004 if she wants the job in 2008.
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Right storyline rong acters. It's Darth Don taking over from the Chainey. (low batteries)
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Wouldn't THAT cause a collective case of the screaming meemies inside the Beltway? (Rummy taking over for Cheney, who followed him as SECDEF after his first stint and whom he sort of served 'under' this time around ....)
Gee, not only a Cabal, but a handknit Cabal. Heh.
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wishful Donk thinking on the indictments/resigning
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Secretary General Annan is refusing to comment to the press on the decision of the world body to give a platform to one of the world's most repressive dictators, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, to compare President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to Hitler and Mussolini. Maybe Congress can get him to say something as it continues its probe as to why America is funding the world body. Let Congress ask about the applause that greeted Mr. Mugabe at the U.N. conference this week in Rome in connection with the 60th birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization. Not only did Mr. Mugabe compare President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to Hitler and Mussolini but he called them "international terrorists." It pumped the crowd.
It would be ironical, if it weren't so offensive, that a U.N. body whose stated aim is to lead "international efforts to defeat hunger" invites a dictator responsible for turning a once prosperous country into an economic basket-case to address it. Mr. Mugabe's Marxist land-reform policies have led to once productive farms being ruined. If there was racial injustice in Zimbabwe, as there was, this was clearly not the way to deal with it. Now more than 4 million Zimbabweans need aid. Poverty, disease, and starvation are rampant across the country.
When questioned on the suitability of inviting a despot like Mr. Mugabe to address the meeting, a spokesman for the FAO, Nicholas Parsons, told The New York Sun that all heads of member states were invited, and as Zimbabwe has been a "member in good standing" since the 1980s, it is "appropriate" that it, like all members, could attend. Only under the auspices of the United Nations could one of the world's most repressive dictators be reelected to a Human Rights Commission - a feather Mr. Mugabe placed in his cap earlier this year despite a habit of rigging elections and beating opponents - before being cheered for denouncing two leaders who liberated a country from another repressive dictator. And now the head of the whole organization stands mum while asking for more money from the alleged Hitlers and Mussolinis.
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Of course, hunger will not be the problem if all plants in the world become radiated or contaminated by rogue third rate military dictatorships who apply their edge and cash to create such weapons and hand them over to those "Peace loving" rogue elements. Those elements happend to spawn from those dictatorships and those dictatorships happen to somehow share seats in the UN.
As those UN soldiers currently continue to rape 8 year old girls in on the edge of the jungles in Africa, The UN "lawmakers" contine to appease the very nations that threaten all of mankind with their reckless development and handeling of the most leathal substancees man ever made.
Never mention of a 1400 "loss" of Nuclear warheads from a bankrupt republic somewhere or a nuclear reactor that melted down in the MIDDLE of Europe that was never fixed and the clock keeps on ticking.
Look at man's invention gone awry.
Watch everyone still trying to buy this crap so they can be "big boys" on the block like that il in the head kim and continue to believe that after they have died, it will be magically taken care of. At this rate, idiots would have everyone in the world with a big red button ready to push if they were least bit angered.
All I can say is keep it up and see where it gets your children.
Y'all lucky God is merciful and very patient.
What should Robert expect? Maybe that turd burgler should not look forward to dying anytime soon. A shanti really sucks in hell, hypocrite.
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WP - Air America, the liberal talk network carried on WWRC-AM (1260), went from bad to nonexistent. After WWRC recorded a mere fraction of a rating point in the spring with syndicated shows from the likes of lefty talkers Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller, Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.
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why does anyone tune in when they have NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Newsweek, Time, CNN, WaPo, NYT and all of Hollyweird to kill time with? When you slice up the lefty hate market, there's a point were only so much consumption can go around.
Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station
Can't detect what's not there. :-D
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If you are in the DC area, try tuning in 1260 AM. It doesn't make it across the Potomac into Northern Virginia. I wonder if it even gets much into Maryland. I can't get it in Gaithersburg.
Disgraced former national security adviser Sandy Berger has signed on as an advisor to the hit ABC TV show "Commander in Chief," where he joins fellow Clintonistas Capricia Marshall and Steve Cohen.
But the show has nothing to do with Hillary
The New York Daily News reports that Berger's new job comes as "Hillary operatives" continue to monitor the show about America's first female president "as a barometer of how she might fare in '08."
Monitor? Hell, they write the scripts!
"So far, it's doing really well," a Clinton source tells the News.
In April, Berger pled guilty to stealing and destroying top-secret national security documents from the National Archives while helping Mr. Clinton cover up prepare for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission. He was sentenced on Sept. 8 to two years' probation and fined $50,000.
Just two days later, however, Berger was in legal hot water again after Virginia highway cops clocked him doing 88 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone. He was charged with reckless driving, a Class 1 misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Not that he'll do any time
Mr. Cohen was Mrs. Clinton's communications director. He joined the Clinton camp in 1991 to help with Mr. Clinton's first presidential campaign. Ms. Marshall served as social secretary for the Clinton White House and continues to meet with Hillary regularly before passing on her orders advice to ABC producers.
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Is that a script in your pants, Sandy or are you just glad to see me?
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Whoâs better to advise them on a crooked government official? Iâm thinking the story line is heading towards a criminal conspiracy with a subsequent cover up. Any bets that it will involve a Republican?
Oh, and despite Anatoly Kharkov (President of Russia) being cast as villain-of-sorts (due to dissent journalist jailing), when he told Geena Davis-as-Mackenzie-Allen off at the dinner -- he showed me that he gets it. :P
Paraphrased: "I'm not here for you, I'm here for my country; as far as we're concerned, we're nowhere."
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The Penn State Department of Mathematics will host an open house of its extensively renovated McAllister Building, featuring a dedication ceremony for a unique sculpture with deep mathematical significance on 21 October 2005 at the Penn State University Park campus.
The event will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a ceremony to dedicate the "Octacube" sculpture in the first-floor atrium of McAllister Building, followed by an opportunity for participants to explore the renovated building until 5:00 p.m.
No good rendering of any 4-dimensional object existed anywhere in the world before the Octacube, either in solid or virtual form, according to Adrian Ocneanu, the Penn State professor of mathematicians who designed the sculpture.
In addition to the events on 21 October, the mathematics department will host a mathematical talk on 20 October at 4:00 p.m. and a talk for the general public on 26 October at 6:00 p.m. All three events will take place in the atrium near the sculpture, will feature 4-dimensional movies, and will be open to the public at no charge.
The sculpture is a gift from Jill Grashof Anderson, a mathematics alumna of Penn State as a memorial for her husband, Kermit C. Anderson, also a Penn State mathematics graduate, who was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001.
The dedication ceremony for the sculpture will include an explanation of its mathematical meaning by its designer, Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics. The stainless-steel Octacube is a striking object of visual art and also a mental portal to the fourth dimension, a teaching tool, and a research object bringing together many branches of mathematics and physics connected to the structure of symmetry.
The sculpture, which measures about six feet in every direction, presents the three-dimensional "shadow" of a four-dimensional solid object.
"Although mathematicians can work with a fourth dimension abstractly by adding a fourth coordinate to the three that we use to describe a point in space, a fourth spatial dimension is difficult to visualize," Ocneanu explains. "The sculpture was designed with a new method which captures four dimensional symmetry better than anything done before."
The Octacube was produced by the staff of the Engineering Services Shop, managed by Jerry Anderson. "It is rare that we get a chance to produce something so extraordinary for people to enjoy," Jerry Anderson says.
"The Octacube demonstrates the high level of skill and craftsmanship of the Penn State people who transformed it from a design to an object, including Janet Page, James Kustenborder, Ronald Weaver, Brian Bennett, Dennis Praskovich, Thomas Coakley, Thomas Rimmey and Lee Brooks."
Jill Grashof Anderson says she hopes the sculpture will encourage students, faculty, administrators, alumnae, and friends to ponder and appreciate the world of mathematics.
"I also hope that all who view the sculpture will begin to grasp the sobering fact that everyone is vulnerable to something terrible happening to them and that we all must learn to live one day at a time, making the very best of what has been given to us." She adds, "It would be great if everyone who views the Octacube walks away with the feeling that being kind to others is a good way to live."
One would also hope that they will realize that eliminating those who breed hatred against free people everwhere is a good thing.
RIP:
Kermit Charles Anderson, 57, Green Brook, N.J., USA
systems analyst, Marsh Inc.
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building
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I always thought the fourth dimension was time.
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My degrees were in physics, so I am probably not qualified to appreciate this. But my initial impression is that it is a bad joke. In mathematics you can work in n dimensions. However, in the real world in which we live, the observer centered world of physics, the human observer can perceive 3 spatial dimensions and the flow of the fourth, time. The other dimensions "commonly" accepted by physicists are not capable of being perceived through direct observation, but can be demonstrated through elaborate experiments.
I guess I can understand the idea of the 3 dimensional shadow, but the thing as a mental portal to the fourth dimension, a teaching tool, and a research object bringing together many branches of mathematics and physics connected to the structure of symmetry is the purest, most refined form of grantsmanship I've seen in awhile. Somebody got hosed.
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The other dimensions "commonly" accepted by physicists are not capable of being perceived through direct observation, but can be demonstrated through elaborate experiments.
The only thing that we can see would be the intersection of the 4-dimensional object with our 3 dimensions. The analogy would be an intersection of a hollow sphere (a 3-d object) with a piece of paper (a 2-d object). To a person stuck in the 2-d world, all he sees is the intersection, which in this case would be the outline of a circle.
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Oops...that's assuming the piece of paper cuts thru the sphere somewhere in the middle. If the piece of paper is tangential to the sphere, then the only thing the 2-d person sees, is a point.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday made a dramatic appeal for urgent help from the world community for Pakistan to prevent a second massive wave of deaths in the wake of the recent earthquake. Annan told reporters that an estimated three million people were homeless with no blankets or tents to protect them from the merciless Himalayan winter. "That means a second, massive wave of death will happen if we do not step up our efforts now," he added.
The Brutal Afghan Winter™ moves east...
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Yet the "wave of death" Pakistan has spawned with its terrorist madrasahs and nuclear proliferation warrants nary a peep from this hypocritical maggot. Rot in endless hell, Kofi.
/Gawg he gives me heartburn, wonder if the mods would ban him. my dead cat ex wifie likes him tho.
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translation: Send money to me so that my son Kojo can set up a shell company to line my and Chirac's pockets. We will be sending peacekeepers soon, as we see good potential for brothels of desperate, hungry young women and boys, whom we have not yet infected with aids. Oh, and send us aid money for the aids crisis too. We'd be glad to line our pockets with that too.
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Agreed Anon! I'm sad to admit, I don't care if the death toll continues to rise. Heavy suffering like in Aceh deplete the enemies will to fight when they have no homes, food or means of survival. Their God did not protect them nor does he shed his grace on them. Throw away the Koran an join the 21st century. In return you'll get foreign investment, job opportunities and a better life for your family.
PESHAWAR: The revised official death toll of the earthquake has surged to 37,958 and more than 23,000 people were injured in NWFP alone, said Asif Iqbal Daudzai, the provincial information minister, on Wednesday. The minister said Mansehra district is the worst-hit area, with 32,653 dead and 12,814 injured.
Manshera? Where they have the camps that they claim they don't have? Maybe I'll become a Lutheran...
Mr Daudzai feared the number of causalities might increase, as hundreds of thousands of buildings were destroyed and several areas were still inaccessible despite the 11-day lapse since the incident. âMost of the injured succumbed to their injuries when rescue teams failed to reach them,â the minister said, adding that the authorities are trying to get to the affected areas. He said the provincial government had emphasised coordination in carrying out the relief effort, lamenting the problem of the uncoordinated efforts which means some people are getting more than they deserve. Mr Daudzai said the NWFP government distributed more than Rs 215 million among the earthquake-victims. He said helicopters on Monday flew 43 sorties dropping a total of 15 tonnes of relief goods including 204 tents, 853 blankets, 16 water boxes, five bundles of caffans and half a tonne of ration.
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And NO and Louisana govt officials blamed the Feds on *ahem, cough cough* slow response to the disaster. The scope of the disaster is staggering in the loss of human life. Almost 40,000 people.
Well, if the agenda of the Pak govt does not cover building codes, fire codes, and enforcement, as well as disaster response planning and strategic supplies stockpiling, then the people of Pak-land and the NWFP are, well f***ed.
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MULTAN: Mazhar Waheed, the Multan jail deputy superintendent, allegedly sewed the lips of Ijaz alias Chiri just before he was scheduled to go to court in Khanewal so that he could not speak up against police brutality. Earlier he had his head, beard, moustache and eyebrows shaved off as well. "I have summoned the deputy superintendent of Central Jail Multan on October 22 to understand why he had sewed the lips of a prisoner, shaved off Ijaz's head, eyebrows, beard and moustache," Khanewal Civil Judge Iqbal Goraya said. The judge submitted a detailed report of the case to a senior judge for legal action.
As long as he didn't desecrate the poor guy's Koran...
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Drat it all! I had hoped this article was about Bashir.
BALAKOT: Foreign and local rescuers abandoned the rescue operation on Wednesday, leaving thousands of bodies under the debris in Balakot. Foreign rescuers working in Balakot left for Kanoor, Kawai, Jareed, Bonja and Paras areas, which were also wiped away by the October 8 earthquake. Not a single body has been retrieved in Garan Dheri and Garlaat villages where thousands of people were buried alive under the debris. Local clerics told people to build boundary walls around the two villages to declare them graveyards.
âThe removal of debris in the two villages is a big task which needs a large scale operation and heavy machinery,â Munsif Hussain, a Garlaat councillor, told Daily Times. Mr Hussain, who was rescued by locals after the quake flattened his house, said that around 70 of his relatives had been killed. He said that Balakot tehsil had 12 union councils with more than 100,000 people. âOver 40,000 of them have lost their lives in the catastrophe. Balakot and Garlaat are the worst hit areas,â he said.
The rubble of shops and buildings along the Kaghan Road fell on Sarwar and Barilvi markets and it is impossible to remove the debris without the help of heavy machinery. Local people, however, remained busy on Wednesday in removing the rubble of their shops and houses in a bid to return to normal life.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday made a dramatic appeal for urgent help from the world community for Pakistan to prevent a second massive wave of deaths in the wake of the recent earthquake. Annan told reporters that an estimated three million people were homeless with no blankets or tents to protect them from the merciless Himalayan winter. "That means a second, massive wave of death will happen if we do not step up our efforts now," he added. 
PESHAWAR: The revised official death toll of the earthquake has surged to 37,958 and more than 23,000 people were injured in NWFP alone, said Asif Iqbal Daudzai, the provincial information minister, on Wednesday. The minister said 
BALAKOT: Foreign and local rescuers abandoned the rescue operation on Wednesday, leaving thousands of bodies under the debris in Balakot. Foreign rescuers working in Balakot left for Kanoor, Kawai, Jareed, Bonja and Paras areas, which were also wiped away by the October 8 earthquake. Not a single body has been retrieved in Garan Dheri and Garlaat villages where thousands of people were buried alive under the debris. Local clerics told people to build boundary walls around the two villages to declare them graveyards. 
